Publishing by itself doesn't modify the AD, but after you have made changes to your topology, the changes will not take effect until they have been published and enabled. And Enabling the topology made changes to every container that contains computers running Lync Server services and some topology configuration is stored here CN=RTC Service,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domainname,DC=local

Sometimes we have such a need to use two Skype accounts, for example, you may have a personal and a business account that you want to keep separate. By default, Skype can be run only once. Attempting to start it a second time fails.
However, we …